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NCII

Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery — sexually-explicit imagery or video produced or distributed without the depicted person's consent. Covers both real captured imagery (the historical "revenge porn" category) and synthetic depictions produced by generative AI. Criminalised in most major jurisdictions; central concern of post-2020 adult-platform policy.

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AI, deepfakes, and the synthetic adult content debate (2026) — A working overview of how generative AI is reshaping adult-content production, detection, and policy in 2026 — what the research literature says, what the major platforms have committed to, and what the open questions look like at the end of the first decade of consumer-grade deepfake tools.
The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media — How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.

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